East Coast Trip

I was picked up nice and early at my accommodation on Wednesday morning to head for Magnetic Island. Talk about service! Magnetic island is an island 8 kilometres offshore from the city ‘Townsville’.

As Emma and Paddy had a car, we took the car on the ferry over and saw many of the islands attractions in just one day. In between catching up on all their honeymoon adventures of course.

The weather had started to clear, although it’s still very overcast. That being said, we were still able to capture the beauty of this island!

The absolute highlight of our day was seeing koalas in the wild – mother and baby! We spotted them on ‘The Forts Track’, a short hike with some incredible views of the island.

We visited a few more points of the island such as Horseshoe bay and Picnic Bay. We grabbed lunch in one of the very few places that was opened on that day, but we all enjoyed it👌🏻.

We returned on the 5pm ferry to Townsville and then headed for Airlie Beach (at last!!!!) A 3 and a half hour trip which flew by as we (Emma and I) yapped the whole way! Sorry Paddy 🙈

I plan to spend 4 days in Airlie Beach with Emma and Paddy and then I will actually return to Magnetic Island and catch up with the friends I left in Mackay! All roads have reopened now and the disastrous floods seem to be a distant memory!

A day well spent which finished with me sneaking into Emma and Paddy’s lovely hotel for the night! The glam life continues!!!

Next stop, Airlie Beach!